Kim Clauson_ TP 6

                I had a great experience with my tutoring student Woo-Joo on Wednesday, November 14, 2012.  On this occasion I had the ability to actually present a lesson that I had prepared, rather than simply helping Woo-Joo with his studies, A.K.A. his homework.  During the last visit, I mentioned to Woo-Joo that my job was to help him with his English.  I didn’t mind studying with him, but I preferred to study the material that was linguistically difficult for him. 

                On this tutoring occasion, I focused on Woo-Joo’s listening skills because I noticed that this was a weakness of his.  We had also talked about listening and comprehension skills as goals for us so the lesson felt appropriate.  I found two related articles and I was hoping that we would have enough time to compare and contrast the stories.  We spent quality time working on listening for the main ideas, and then we prepared six comprehension questions and provided the answers as well.  The stories were found on the VOA website and the titles were “Circus is Home to Traveling Performers” and “Cirque du Soleil.”  I discovered that Woo-Joo understood the material with relative ease.  He occasionally provided questions with awkward sentence structures, but I didn’t feel that it was a major concern. 

                I was excited to show Woo-Joo a YouTube video that I had found with the Cirque du Soleil performers.  He was amazed!  I am glad that my lessons have been interesting to him thus far because I know that middle school student attitudes are not always thrilled about the idea of “more work.”